Cooperative Attitudes Among Workers of Social Cooperatives: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment

通过组合经验和调查数据的全新经验方法,我们调查了非盈利组织员工之间的合作态度。具体来说,双人囚犯的困境游戏被附加到意大利的全国社会合作调查。我们尝试操纵那些与囚犯的困境交互人员的社会亲密程度,以及共同合作的相对返回。我们发现,当参与者的社会亲密程度较低时,返回更高的增强合作;同时,合作不仅仅受社会亲密程度变化的营销。此外,工作场所和固有意向因素的社会关系与游戏的选择相关。我们的发现提供了组织特点和员工动机之间的相互作用的有益内幕。

We investigate cooperative attitudes among workers of nonprofit organizations by means of a novel empirical method combining experimental and survey data. Specifically, a two-player Prisoner’s Dilemma game is attached to a nationwide survey of social cooperatives in Italy. We experimentally manipulate social proximity of those interacting in the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the relative returns of mutual cooperation. We find that higher returns foster cooperation when social proximity of participants is low, while cooperation is not affected by a change in social proximity alone. Furthermore, social relations in the workplace and innate dispositional factors correlate with choices in the game. Our findings offer stimulating insights into the interplay between organizational features and workers’ motivations